CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 2nd December 2021

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 2nd DECEMBER 2021

1. The Centre’s fiscal deficit 5.47 lakh crore or 30.3% of the budget estimates due to improvement in revenue collection according to CGA data.
2. RBI has appointed a 3 member advisory committee to assist the administrator of Reliance Capital.
3. Forthnight celebration to make the 50^th anniversary of victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war will be celebrated in Pune from December 3 to 16. The celebration will Commence will the inauguration of the display of the T-55 battle tank, which was built in the soviet Union in 1963.
4. SBI has signed an agreement with Usha International Limited (UIL) for empowering women entrepreneurs by providing financial assiatance.
5. Walmart and it subsidiary Flipkart on 30 November 2021 announced that they will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Madhya Pradesh.
6. Odisha government on 1^st  December 2021 announced a social security scheme for newspaper hawkers across the State.
7. Vice Admiral M.A. Hampiholi assumed charge as the 29^th Flag Officer Commanding-in-chief of the Southern Naval Command, Kochi on 30^th November 2021.
8. Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna was presented with the Rajyotsava Award by Karnataka chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on 30 November 2021.
9. The former Finance Minister of Sweden, Eva Magdalena Andersson from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) won her 2nd election and became the 1st female Prime Minister (PM) of Sweden.
10. Nagaland is celebrating its 59th Statehood Day on 1 December 2021. Nagaland was granted statehood on December 1, 1963, with Kohima being declared as its capital.
11. A biography titled ‘Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism’, authored by Dinyar Patel and published by Harvard University Press selected as the winner of the 4th Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF (New India Foundation) Book Prize 2021.
12. India observes National Pollution Prevention Day on December 2 in memory of People who lost their lives in the Bhopal gas disaster.
13. World Computer Literacy Day is observed 2^nd December every year.
14. Ajay Banga, the former CEO of Mastercard Inc. is joining General Atlantic as vice Chairman.
15. India joined the G20 Troika on 1 December 2021. The troika now consists of Indonesia, Italy and India. India will assume the G20 presidency on December 1, 2022 from Indonesia and will convene the G20 leaders Summit for the first time in India in 2023.